James Harvey (born July 4, 1922) was a United States Representative from Michigan. Born in Iron Mountain, Michigan, he enrolled in the University of Michigan in 1940 but interrupted studies in 1942 to serve in the United States Army Air Forces for three years; he earned an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1948 and was admitted to the bar, commencing the practice of law in Saginaw, Michigan in 1949. He was assistant city attorney from 1949 to 1953, and was a city councilman and a member of the Saginaw County board of supervisors from 1955 to 1957. He was mayor of Saginaw from 1957 to 1959 and was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1961 to January 31, 1974. He resigned on January 31, 1974 and was appointed by President Richard Nixon as a United States District Court judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, serving from 1974 to 1984. He was a United States Senior District judge from 1984 to 2002, and is now a resident of Port Huron, Michigan.